Big Milly's Backyard...the happiest place on earth!

Kokobrite Travel Blog

We finally made it!After a treacherous trip over the Southern Coast of Ghana and all over Accra, weâ€™re home!Free at last!

Kokobrite was everything it was last year, minus a whole lot
more people, but still amazing nevertheless.I think I could call Big Millyâ€™s the Happiest Place on Earth.They really should get an award for the
community theyâ€™ve built.Big Millyâ€™s
Backyard is actually a resort that has a good mix of foreigners and locals.But it operates in such a way that it makes it
easy to feel at home.

When you check in, you get the run down of how the place is
run.Donâ€™t go to the beach with
valuables or at dark, when you lock your room, leave your key with the
bartender so you donâ€™t have to carry it or lose it, you pay nothing until you
check out;you simply give them your
name and they â€śchargeâ€ť it to your room per say and you pay for your entire stay
when you check outâ€¦Itâ€™s such a great environment as it forces the staff to know
your name and vice versa.You quickly
develop a great relationship with everyone especially the bartenders.Fridays they have drumming and dancing shows
and Saturday, live reggae.Washington,
the man who checked us in last night told us there would be no show as it
wasnâ€™t busy due to the elections.About
an hour later, a large tro tro showed up with the drummers and dancers.I couldnâ€™t have been more ecstatic.They gave a great show, like always and even
pulled me up to dance (the pictures are quite funny).If only I could dance like those girls!

In the morning we had breakfast and explored the beach which
blows me away everytime.Itâ€™s a small
close knit community of true rastafaris, smoking â€śganjaâ€ť and all, playing their
Bob Marley music.They have some of the
neatest handicrafts Iâ€™ve seen in the area but not a huge selection.Their earrings are very cheap though, only
$1!